Budget Tips – Fire Round the World

Yosemite Itinerary and Final Spending

For our weekend trip to Yosemite we traveled over the long Labor Day weekend. Here’s what our schedule looked like: Friday Land at Sacramento Airport at 8:00pm Drive 2 hours to Tuttletown Recreation Area to camp Saturday Drive 2 hours to Yosemite Valley Day hikes around the valley Sunday Hike Half Dome Monday Short MorningContinue reading “Yosemite Itinerary and Final Spending”

Peru Final Spending for 2 weeks

We went wayyyyyyyy over budget for our Peru trip! Though it still doesn’t look too bad in comparison to what the trip is actually worth, I was pretty disappointed. Our breakdown is below, and here’s what went wrong for us: I did not anticipate how many places require payment in cash only. For some ofContinue reading “Peru Final Spending for 2 weeks”

Final Cancun Spending

Here it is! Our final expenses from our Cancun trip for the July 4th weekend. A few notes: 1. The swimsuit purchase added to our total when an unnamed individual forgot his for our water activity focused weekend 🙂 2. Food in Mexico is not all that much cheaper than food in the U.S. especiallyContinue reading “Final Cancun Spending”

Our Cancun budget: $0 spent

Our trip to Cancun is coming up in just a week and a half! Swimming with whale sharks has been on my bucket list and I’m so excited to check it off the list! While we’re there we’re also trying something else new: parasailing. This is something I’ve wanted to try for a while butContinue reading “Our Cancun budget: $0 spent”

Seattle Expenses

We loved our time away this weekend in Seattle! It was definitely a bit out of our norm as we tend to go on a really big trip each year where we’re gone for 2 weeks- and not have any really short weekend trips along the way other than camping. This was the first timeContinue reading “Seattle Expenses”

We earned over 500,000 miles in 2014! A Year in Review

This last year was the first one when we really started hitting the miles and points game hard. And boy did it pay off! It’s been a learning process along the way and there are things I would’ve done differently. But overall I am thrilled with the end result we now have. Below is aContinue reading “We earned over 500,000 miles in 2014! A Year in Review”

Using Shopping Portals this holiday season (or anytime!)

Yesterday I wrote about the fantastic offer for the Chase Freedom card right now that has doubled their sign up bonus! While I highlighted some of the awesome benefits this card offers, there’s even more that you could get from that one, or just any card you use during your holiday shopping. Chase cards areContinue reading “Using Shopping Portals this holiday season (or anytime!)”

20 Days in Europe Budget

We’ve had many people ask us about our budget for Europe and how we were able to afford such a big trip (check out our itinerary here). When I was going through the planning process for us, one of the things I found most helpful was budgets posted by other travelers for how much theyContinue reading “20 Days in Europe Budget”

2 Roundtrip Tickets to Peru for $250 (in first class on the way home!)

Planning travel is fun-especially when it’s free! I just booked our tickets for our trip to Peru next year- and I didn’t spend a single penny. This is all thanks to my little friend the Citi AAdvantage Executive MasterCard! It’s an American Airlines credit card that gave me 100,000 bonus miles for signing up. ForContinue reading “2 Roundtrip Tickets to Peru for $250 (in first class on the way home!)”

Couchsurfing.org

20 nights of travel across Europe. Total cost of lodging: $184.75. How’d we do it? Say hello to couchsurfing. Couchsurfing is literally one of the greatest inventions ever in my opinion .During our trip we spent a couple nights at local cheap hotels (some free with points, some I had to pay for), a coupleContinue reading “Couchsurfing.org”